A Gift For Teaching Moves To Larger Accommodations

SCHOOLS - IN BRIEF

A Gift For Teaching, a nonprofit organization that provides school supplies to low-income students had the grand opening of its "Big Schoolhouse" this month.

The group moved its headquarters to the Orange County Public Schools warehouse at 6501 Magic Way. The site is almost twice the size of the previous one.

The organization collects surplus supplies from businesses and individuals, and through a Free Store for teachers, distributes them to students in need.

So far, students have received more than $12 million worth of supplies, such as books, paper, pencils and crayons. Almost $15,000 worth of supplies a day are distributed.

RETIRED EDUCATORS TO HAVE GENERAL MEETING JAN. 6

The Orange County Retired Educators Association will have a general membership meeting Jan. 6 in the Fellowship Hall of the College Park United Methodist Church on Harvard Street at Edgewater Drive in Orlando.

A continental breakfast at 10 a.m. will be followed by the general membership meeting and program at 10:30 a.m.

For details, call Julia Greene at 407-656-2298 or Bob and Ruth Ford at 407-644-7092.